About Thomas A. Giles
Lived 1916 – 1970 (aged 53). Thomas A. Giles was a Canadian judge.
Thomas Augustine Giles (November 23, 1916 – October 23, 1970) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cumberland West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.
Born in 1916 at Victoria, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Giles graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University, and was a lawyer by career. He married Joan Edwards of Salisbury, England in 1945, and then Sylvia Bowser of Sussex, New Brunswick. He was defeated by Liberal Allison T. Smith when he ran for re-election in 1953. In 1967, Giles was appointed a judge of the Provincial Magistrate's Court. He died at Antigonish on October 23, 1970.
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Who was Thomas A. Giles?
Canadian judge (1916-1970)
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Thomas A. Giles was born on 23 November 1916 in Victoria.
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Thomas A. Giles died on 23 October 1970 in Antigonish.
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Thomas A. Giles was a judge.
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Thomas A. Giles was Canadian.
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